"I thought it out this very day,Noon..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats
I thought it out this very day,Noon upon the clock,A man may put pretence awayWho leans upon a stick,May sing, and sing until he drop,Whether to maid or hag.
More by William Butler Yeats
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,Those undreamt accidents that have made meSeeing that Fame has perished this long while,Being but a part of ancient ceremonyNotorious, till all my priceless thingsAre but a post the passing dogs defile.”
“Though I have many words,What woman's satisfied,I am no longer faintBecause at her side?O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?”
“Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.”
More on Authenticity
“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.”
“Be yourself; everyone else is taken.”
“People want Art. And they are given it. But the less Art there is in painting the more painting there is.”
More on Age
“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”
“If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!”
“A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.”